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Eric Dunn, vice president of Special Operations at H.P. White Laboratory, Inc., shows off firearms that are used in testing at their facility in the armory, Tuesday, May 5, 2009, in Street, Md. Stung by an internal audit that found troops were issued body armor that failed critical ballistic testing, Army officials canned the private laboratories they'd long relied upon for the tests and said they would do the vital job themselves. Yet the Army appears to have simply swapped one set of contractors for another, a fact at odds with the service's contention the work is too important for the private sector to handle. (AP Photo/Patrick Smith)
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